Maternity blues: OBs causing musculoskeletal pain in babies

First things first...

PREGNANT WOMEN: MDs and MBs (and midwives) are senselessly closing birth
canals up to 30%...

It's EASY to allow your birth canal to OPEN the "extra" up to 30% (!)...
(and you DON'T have to squat)

Just roll onto your side as you push your baby out. BUT - see WARNING,
WARNING, WARNING at the very end of this post...



OBs CAUSING MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN IN BABIES



"[R]epresentatives from chiropractic, general practice, osteopathy,
physiotherapy, psychology & sociology... [are investigating] the
decision-making processes in the care of patients with musculoskeletal
pain."
--Martin Underwood, MB, ChB, MD
http://www.smd.qmul.ac.uk/gp/researc...underwoodm.htm

OPEN LETTER (archived for global access***)

Martin R. Underwood, MB, ChB, MD
Professor of General Practice
Department of General Practice and Primary Care
Barts and the London Medical School
Queen Mary, University of London
Mile End Road
LONDON
E1 4NS


Martin,

MD and MB obstetricians are senselessly closing birth canals up to 30%,
gruesomely manipulating tiny spines thereby causing musculoskeletal pain in
most babies at birth.

Babies are dying. (See Vacuum Deaths in the US, using Irish/UK data below.)

PLEASE... Have representatives from chiropractic, general practice,
osteopathy, physiotherapy, psychology & sociology IMMEDIATELY investigate
the decision-making process.

MDs and MBs are committing VARIOUS obvious obstetric crimes...

See Johns Hopkins breast/vagina/penis power! (How America can INSTANTLY save
$200 million per year...)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/2108

Thanks.

Sincerely,

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo


PS1 Martin, in 2001 you noted with AC Granger,

"[M]aternity blues, postnatal depression and puerperal psychosis...are
commonly seen...hypotheses for their causation [include] falling
progesterone levels in the postpartum period. Progesterone supplements are
therefore currently used...no robust primary research to support the use of
progesterone in the treatment of [maternity blues, postnatal depression and
puerperal psychosis]." [Granger AC, Underwood MR. J Psychosom Obstet
Gynaecol. 2001 Mar;22(1):49-55]

Could mass vagina slashing by MDs and MBs be causing some cases of
"maternity blues"?

MDs and MBs are slashing vaginas en masse (euphemism "routine episiotomy")
surgically/FRAUDULENTLY claiming they are doing everything possible to OPEN
birth canals - even as they CLOSE birth canals - up to 30%...

Michael C. Klein, MD writes: "I think it is important to recognize that
episiotomy is a deliberate second degree tear." [Birth. Letter.
2002;29(1):74]

The second degree tear is deliberate and UNNECESSARY in so many cases...

MDs blame "childbirth" for their mass vagina slashing behavior, as in,


"The most common diagnosis for hospitalization among all women is trauma to
perineum due to childbirth."
http://www.ahcpr.gov/data/hcup/factbk3/factbk3.htm

It is at least possible that some cases of maternity blues, postnatal
depression and puerperal psychosis are due to MD and MB obstetricians
senselessly closing birth canals and gruesomely manipulating tiny spines -
and routinely slashing vaginas..

Not only is there no "robust primary research" to support these bizarre
birth practices...

There is an ongoing MD/MB cover-up - with one British MD (Gardosi) blaming
*midwives* for the bizarre birth practice!

See Gardosi J, Sylvester S, B-Lynch C. Alternative positions in the second
stage
of labour: a randomised controlled trial Br J Obstet Gynaecol 1989; 6:
1290-1296

See also Gardosi et al.'s 1989 Lancet "randomised controlled trial of
squatting" where nobody squatted.

And see: Best maternity ca Keen interest from Scotland...
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/1821

Copied to: Department of General Practice and Primary Care
Barts and the London Medical School
Queen Mary, University of London
Mile End Road
LONDON
E1 4NS
(Those with email addresses listed at:
http://www.smd.qmul.ac.uk/gp/ADMINWeb/email.htm)




PS2 Since the analysis of the UK Back pain Exercise And Manipulation Trial
(UK BEAM) is in progress - http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/hsce...
http://www.smd.qmul.ac.uk/gp/researc...underwoodm.htm

I'll also copy this to: Department of Health Sciences
University of York
Heslington
York
YO10 5DD
(Those with email addresses listed at:
http://www.york.ac.uk/healthsciences/stfdy/staffdy.htm)

And I'll copy Martin's UK BEAM co-author Dr Emma Harvey
Yorkshire Research Network (YReN)
Centre for Research in Primary Care
Hallas Wing, Nuffield Institute
71-75 Clarendon Road
Leeds LS2 9PL
UK; E-mail:

According to UK BEAMers,

"Low back pain has major health and social implications...There are data to
suggest that general exercise programmes may have beneficial effects on low
back pain."
[Underwood MR. BMC Health Serv Res. 2003 Aug 1 [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed
abstract]

Whose decision-making process can we blame for back pain experts failing to
inform Western chair-dwellers that they are robbing their children of a
fundamental human rest posture/range of motion called flat-footed squatting?

See Sarah Key's huge balls (also: Kids can SQUAT motionless for hours)...
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/2084

See also: Squatting, Nurse Jenn's genital piercing, the Anti-Vagina - and
Kingston
General's Human Mobility Centre...
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/1800

Martin, I haven't yet heard back from your chiropractic colleague Dr. Alan
Breen...

See again: Sarah Key's huge balls (also: Kids can SQUAT motionless for
hours)...
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/2084



PS3 VACUUM DEATHS IN THE UNITED STATES...

Check my math...

In 2002, there were 4,019,280 births in the United States...
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/releases/03news/lowbirth.htm

1. Assume US vacuum delivery rate 5% (half that in the United Kingdom and
Republic of Ireland^^^) = (roughly) 200,000 vacuum deliveries per year

^^^Calum Macleod, MD (with O'Neill) [Ir Med J. 2003 May;96(5):147-8. See
also: http://www.imj.ie/news_detail.php?nN...660&nVolId=102

2. Assume same subgaleal haematoma/subaponeurotic haemorrhage rate 6.4%...
6.4% of 200,000 = (roughly) 12,000 subgaleal haematomas/subaponeurotic
haemorrhages per year

3. Assume same (23%) mortality from subgaleal haematoma/subaponeurotic
haemorrhage...

23% of 12,000 = (roughly) 2,400 deaths from vacuum delivery per year!

**MORE** THAN 2,000 AMERICAN BABIES ARE VACUUMED TO DEATH BY MDs ANNUALLY!
(This is a
*conservative* estimate based on the three assumptions above.)

WARNING: "Given the low rates of neonatal autopsy and the relatively high
rates of vacuum assisted delivery the real extent of vacuum associated
morbidity and mortality may be much higher than realised. When the federal
authorities in the United States and Canada issued public health advisories
for vacuum assisted delivery a 22-fold increase in notification of adverse
outcomes was observed...Subaponeurotic haemorrhage is difficult to diagnose
as clinical signs may be minimal or absent."
--Calum Macleod, MD (with O'Neill) [Ir Med J. 2003 May;96(5):147-8. See
also: http://www.imj.ie/news_detail.php?nN...660&nVolId=102

NOTE: It is likely that US and Canadian "public health advisories for
vacuum assisted delivery" mentioned by Macleod do not warn MD-obstetricians
not to place women on their backs/butts at delivery. If so, this oversight
should be corrected immediately.

PREGNANT WOMEN! It's EASY to open your birth canal the "extra" up to
30%!

Just roll onto your side as you push your baby out! PLEASE talk to your MD
about this NOW...

WARNING
WARNING
WARNING
WARNING: Some MDs will let women "try" side-lying and
other
"alternative" delivery positions - but they will move women back to
semisitting -
close their birth canals (!) at
the very worst possible moment (as the baby is coming out)...

See GASTALDO'S ABSTRACT - my invited poster presentation at a recent
obstetric congress co-sponsored by the American College of Obstetricians and
Gynecologists/ACOG. (NOTE: GASTALDO'S ABSTRACT is on the web: Search
"GASTALDO'S ABSTRACT
Paciornik"...)

As always, I am in favor of pardons in advance for MDs. MDs are just
academic prime cuts forced through this culture's most powerful mental
meatgrinder - medical school.

Thanks for reading,

Sincerely,

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo


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